Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-02-19

cnIiar fatality occurred on board the hsTk Memnon. from Tscomo, as she vas crossipg the bar entrance e. this harDo, tbIs afternoon ID tow of the tug "Relief.- The bitts around which the havser was fastened on the bark, broke, struck me forcastle, and killed three seaman ID its passage overheard
 Los ANGELES, February l5-A severe rain storm has prevailed here during tIe mast twento-four hours. Rain came down in torrents. last night, sccomps- nied by thunder ani s blsze Of hgnt- hing. The rainfall amounted to %, inches. The river rose rAPiily anu washed away several approaches to the Fast Los Angeles bridge. Irvney ave me bridge and the San Gabriel Valley br,dge were washed away. The streets near the river were submerged and the residents remained in ether parts of the city during the night. Many wsshouts are also reported on the Calitornls Southern road, in Csjon Pass and Tepe- cula Canyon. Through traIns are de- Iayed. The breaches are not serious, and can be repaired in a day or two.
 A Los Angeles special to the Express from San Pedro says: The storm ragged with great violence here yesterday. The waves ran mountains high. and vessels at anchor of Desdman's Island were tossed about like chips. During last night the ship KeDnebec and the barkentine St Louis shipped tbeir sn- ehors and were completely wrecked.
 It wss impossible to aid the vessels owing to the high sea. At dawn this morning three boats from San Pedro reached the Kennebec and found otfi- cers and crew in the rigging, expecting every moment to be plunged into the surgipg waters that ragged around them. They were safely brought to land. The St. Lotus had drifted ID the darkness on A reefnear Point Firmsn. The officers and crew succeeded m getting ashore at daylight. She wac commanded by Cspthin Jaseks, and had arrived here with a cargo of lumber from Coos Bay. The kenuebec had cargo of coal from Liverpool for the Southern Pacific hsll- rnad company. It was commanded by CaptaIn A. Ford.
 PEsrH February 15.-Ths Buds- Pesth Journal urges Austria to attack Russia before the latter has completed rreparatiOns on the Lower Danube, lt says: War is inevitable, and 1t Is better to bdgin fighting before the Balkan states have been RussiRniZed. Austria would thus secure an alliance with Servia Hni Bulgaria, giving 1T lOO,OOO additional troops"
 SACRAMENT, Gala. February b. Eleven new cases Of dIphiheria were re- ported to-day.
 MADRID, February l5-Senor Castillo, minister If the interior. replying to an | inquiry as to whether Spain was making any preparations ID view of a European
 war, said that steps had been taken 10 augment the defeuses of Spain and her | colonies and other measures would be adopted, but thnt at present it Tas ID ! expedien. tO CT plain more fully the eX- tent Of the governments preparations.
 SAS FRANCISCO. February 15-A seri- ous snow blockade exists on the Central | Pacific road between Colfax and Cisco.
 The overland that left here yesterday Is
 delayed at ColfsI. and the west bound
 train at Cisco. Until yesterday trains
 came through by the aid of snow blows | and gangs ofsnOw SEovelers, but con | tuucd fall of snow, which the wind
 drif.ed on the track, finally renderei all
 efforts to keep the track clear futile. One
 engine was derailed and banked in a
 drift. Every endeavor Is still being made to open the line. but owing 10 the wires being down. l; Is diffic1lt 10 ascer- tain the exact situation. The steamer
 Mariposa, announced to sail last Satur- day for Australia, has postponed leaving
 to await the arrival os the English msIls
 CoSsT TASrIsoPLE. February 15-The | Turkish minister of foreign affairs has
 app,oyei the propsssl of Sir Henry Drummond Wolfe, British commissiun-
 CT to Egypt. rega. dIng the neutrality o'
 that country.
 | SAN DIEGo, February 15-An engine
 and six cars on the California Southern
 RallrOAd, left the track near Delmar. 3C
 miles north of here. yesterday, owing tO
 the rbils spreading, which was caused by
 the ram washing away the road bed. | Several small wGshOutS are also report
 ed between here and COlton. No Cne
 was hufs by the wreck, which is be:nG
 cleared uway. No trains have arrived | or departed since, except the vrecking
 train This afternoon the wind blew
 forty miles an hour. IL has rained hard | here; . Oj inches of rain has fallen ID | the lss: 2t hour, and lt IS still rGiping,
 making 5.7J inches for she season. Ow-
 ing to street wsshOuts. the street cars
 have pot iul all day.
 PREsCyrT, Feb. l7.-Baker introduced a hIll authorizing the expenditure of | Sj eco to build a sewer in the territorial
 prison.
 The code commission bill regarding marriage and divorce, also concerning | executions. passed
 The house refused to discharge the | committee selected tO investigate the | ex-directors Ut the insane asylum. | The council passed the biil of the | code commission concerning principals
 md sursties, also providing for trans | CT hing and supplying the II t of records,
 also the bill funding territorial indebted | ucrs.
 Bliun gave notice of bIll abolishing
 tbe University of ATizOna-
 The code till concerning principals
 sS d sureties was passed; also Blinn's | bill fixing the salary and duties of the | commissioner of immigration, tiI'ng the FGisry at Sl so year, Sl .OOO for travel | ing and inciisutal eXprnseS; reducing tbe present salary Sl,7OO. IL passed by a unanimous vote.
 SAS FRANCIsCO, February l7-The | Examiners Washington special says: 1 The president finds himself cOnsiderR- bIy embarrassed ID bis efforts to secure | a suitable successor to Secretary Man ! ring. He IS thinking uf going west for a man aud has now under consideration | tbe names of Carlisle, Morrison, HOad- | ly. aud possibly one urtEO others. He FGid in reply to Q gentleman who asked him If he intended to appoint Carlisle. Il have not decided upon anybody. l sm thinking about Mir. Carlisle; f. go
 vest. he would pro5 5s5ly be my choice. although 1 am not positive upon thi- point. have uo', hOgsvsr, decided to go west; il l iJ not, l shall appoint 6 New York nRn. but up to the present time have made no choice"
 ALBUQUERQUE, \, M., January l7-An investigation Uf the sheriff's books, of this county, since the new sheriff has been in office. has developed sn astound Ing amount of p9cnlation by .sI. Deputy Sheriff AubIn, now supposed to be in Denver, bl. possibly in Canada. The amount Of the dedication, 1t is thought, will reach S20. 1000. Ex-Sheriff Baca promises to make 1t all good Aubir's plan was 10 pocket the taIrs Tn srfa